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Space Rocket History #370 – Apollo 17 – Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt

Posted August 18, 202100:52:51

Harrison Schmitt played a key role in training Apollo crews to be geologic observers when they were in lunar orbit and competent geologic field workers...

Space Rocket History #369 – Apollo 17 – Mankind’s Last Giant Leap

Posted August 4, 202100:57:50

Apollo 17 would break several crewed spaceflight records: 1) longest moon mission duration: 12 days 13 hours 52 minutes (just a day and a third shorter...

Space Rocket History #368 – Apollo 16 – Splashdown

Posted July 21, 202100:56:27

On re-entry Casper hit the atmosphere at an altitude of about 400,000 feet above the earth and at a velocity of nearly 25,000 miles per hour. 

Space Rocket History #367 – Apollo 16 – Rendezvous, Docking, Ascent Stage Dump, Ken’s EVA and Lord of the Wedding Rings

Posted June 23, 202100:50:39

The LM eventually crashed due to lunar gravity anomalies. Since Houston didn’t know exactly where it landed, it was not useful to calibrate seismic...

Space Rocket History #366 – Apollo 16 – Moonwalk 3, Lunar Olympics & Lift-off From the Moon

Posted June 9, 202100:46:35

It was the only time in their whole lunar stay that Charlie had a real moment of panic and thought he had killed himself.